Religion and Political Conflict in Latin America (Paperback, 1st New edition)

Daniel H. Levine

The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new
values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change
in the church, political life, and the social order as a whole and
deal with the issues of poverty and the role of the poor within the
church and political structures. Exploring areas from Nicaragua, El
Salvador, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and Chile, the authors analyze
the transformation in popular religion and reevaluate the growth of
grassroots organizations. |Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in
History, this book recreates and analyzes the dramatic political
and religious confrontations that transformed Virginia in the
second half of the eighteenth-century. (Please see cloth edition
published 5/82.)